General Coach Candidate News

[iu eyedoc]

13 minutes ago, Adillac said:

Mismanaging the basketball program for 25 years would definitely suggest IU will ignore Beard/Wade/Golden. 
 

Indiana is a better job than Florida and it’s IU‘s job to make that clear. If IU can’t make the case to someone qualified then again, that’s just incompetence. 
 

You can have mid NIL and salary and play in a FedEx warehouse or you can have top level NIL and salary and play in a limestone cathedral. 
 

It is public knowledge that IU has top shelf money for both coaches and players, that we have a great arena and there is prestige (though fading) to the job. IU needs to do better at hiring basketball coaches. It’s literally their job and it will be their fault (not the fans’) if they hire another dud. 

Not one bit of this is correct in the slightest.

[go iu bb]

42 minutes ago, Stuhoo said:

Guys—please take the Woodson stuff to another thread.

Thanks

The Woodson thread got locked.

Edit: It looks like it's been unlocked. Never mind.

[ziggyiu]

1 minute ago, MikeRoberts said:

I wouldn’t go that far but it means that posts of  done deals, we got our guy that have been posted for weeks/months etc wasnt true. 
Maybe we land a good one but it seems that whoever we get was a recent thing or will be a recent thing

Or it could be that people on the outer reaches of the inner circle are only now getting confirmation that everything is finalized.

Or it could be that some insiders or some people who get updates from insiders sometimes get a little excited and suggest more has been agreed to/finalized/etc. then really is at the time. 

[Ron Mexico]

10 minutes ago, Stuhoo said:

Who do you think is our #1 priority between them?

I would tend to think we could have our pick.

I think it's DeVries for 3 reasons:

1) I'm not entirely sure McCollum wants the IU job and could be perfectly content staying at Drake.  His end game could be the Iowa job knowing Iowa very likely cannot afford DeVries nor meet certain financial demands.  Who knows - maybe it's the IU job he covets.  

2) Personality.  Simply put, I think DeVries is a better fit when you consider everything the job entails.  I do however believe BM is the better coach.  

3) The info leaked a few days ago that suggested BM was a serious candidate for the IU job and Scott was highly impressed or something to that effect.  I initially thought that was agent driven but now I'm not so sure...  I now believe that a certain AD was sending a clear signal to the DeVries camp to sh*t or get off the pot, talk to your Iowa buddies and make a decision or "we'll go all in on BM."  

I also think you could do a role reversal here and use the two names interchangeably on most of what I just said lol  

 

[tyappleg]

7 minutes ago, newcastle12 said:

Rabby said he has multiple "It's done" texts that he believes but none of those people know who it is.  

Well, we should know fairly quickly then if the guy we got is still coaching or not.  No announcement in the next couple days (or tomorrow probably) and our guy is coaching in the tournament. Here's to hoping for good news tomorrow. 

[HoosierBoiler]

Look if Rabby is saying he got txt’s back to back that it’s done it probably is.

Probably Devries. 
I-don’t Hate it

[Scotty R]

18 minutes ago, newcastle12 said:

Rabby said he has multiple "It's done" texts that he believes but none of those people know who it is.  

He better be right this time or he he.might need to find a new job

 It hasn't been a great day for him 

[BA47591]

DeVries doesn't sound like the "Dolson has his guy" 3 weeks ago rumor. He sounds more like, "I gave a list of traits to a search firm and they spit out 6 names and I've been turned down 3 times." 

This sounds like maybe Quinn didn't hijack the hire in 2021, maybe he really did have to jump in and pull Woody out of his a55 at the last second. 

Nope, I'm still expecting James Bond late this week. 

 

[str8baller]

2 minutes ago, Stuhoo said:

Other than a giant bag of money compared to UF bball (for now), what makes IU currently a better program?

Just that. That’s the world we live in. UF has about no shot to lure away a player from IU that IU wants to keep. IU could pull one off UF. Just like we did to Arizona. And Wash St and Stanford. And Illinois.  Or Duke did to national runner up Purdue. 
 

Just the money. That’s all that matters. To the coaches who haven’t figured it out yet, they will. If they’re having trouble they can pick up the phone and ask Jay Wright or Tony Bennett. Or Matt Painter. Yesterday’s success won’t keep your kids around. Just the money.  
 

Hell even the SEC football teams are learning the lesson after back to back B1G titles with some expensive UM and OSU teams. If IU doesn’t screw this hire up they’re sitting in a similar spot with their current spending levels on basketball.

[AZ Hoosier]

1 hour ago, spe317 said:

No, once you’re a poor coach you kick puppies and punch babies. 
 

No one will ever convince me Woody didn’t think he could do well here and be a good coach. I’ll go ahead and assume his intentions were pure. Unfortunately, reality is a cruel mistress. 

The problem with wanting to do it is that it requires effort. Woodson had to be told to go watch Mullins in a sectional game. Woodson wanted the job, but had no interest in doing the job. You will never convince me otherwise. He was all in to coaching by osmosis.

[DSUMMITT]

14 minutes ago, Hoosierfanyuh said:

Rabby on peegs chat: Just received a couple texts: "It's done." Neither person claimed to know who, but they both said "It's done." If that's true, then it's gonna get real interesting real fast around here. Heavy on the "If that's true."

Sheesh - how many times has this been done? It feels like what I tell my wife when shes asks if some really annoying to-do thing is done yet and I just know I'm gonna get around to it so I say 'yeah it's done' (but then later get busted cuz it's not really done) 

(Not giving you a hard time @Hoosierfanyuh)

[southernindianahoosier2]

We need @Chris007 and @JerryYeagley23to chime in lol. I’m dooming 

[AZ Hoosier]

14 minutes ago, Hoosierfanyuh said:

Rabby on peegs chat: Just received a couple texts: "It's done." Neither person claimed to know who, but they both said "It's done." If that's true, then it's gonna get real interesting real fast around here. Heavy on the "If that's true."

Haven't we been hearing that for weeks or even months now?

[Stuhoo]

17 minutes ago, Hoosierfanyuh said:

Rabby on peegs chat: Just received a couple texts: "It's done." Neither person claimed to know who, but they both said "It's done." If that's true, then it's gonna get real interesting real fast around here. Heavy on the "If that's true."

If we’re announcing before tourney games then to me it’s gotta be (in order of likelihood):

1. Devries (by far)

 

2. Stevens 

3. Donovan (for some hunch reason I think it’s possible)

 

4. Collins 

5. Murray

6. Bennett 

That’s all I got.

 

[Hoosierfan1901]

7 minutes ago, HoosierBoiler said:

Look if Rabby is saying he got txt’s back to back that it’s done it probably is.

Probably Devries. 
I-don’t Hate it

Based on the recent smoke, yea, I could see it

[Hoosier987]

9 minutes ago, Ron Mexico said:

I think it's DeVries for 3 reasons:

1) I'm not entirely sure McCollum wants the IU job and could be perfectly content staying at Drake.  His end game could be the Iowa job knowing Iowa very likely cannot afford DeVries nor meet certain financial demands.  Who knows - maybe it's the IU job he covets.  

2) Personality.  Simply put, I think DeVries is a better fit when you consider everything the job entails.  I do however believe BM is the better coach.  

3) The info leaked a few days ago that suggested BM was a serious candidate for the IU job and Scott was highly impressed or something to that effect.  I initially thought that was agent driven but now I'm not so sure...  I now believe that a certain AD was sending a clear signal to the DeVries camp to sh*t or get off the pot, talk to your Iowa buddies and make a decision or "we'll go all in on BM."  

I also think you could do a role reversal here and use the two names interchangeably on most of what I just said lol  

 

DeVries also has a decent recruiting class coming in

[hoopsta007]

1 minute ago, Stuhoo said:

If we’re announcing before tourney games then to me it’s gotta be (in order of likelihood):

1. Devries (by far)

 

2. Stevens 

3. Donovan 

 

4. Collins 

5. Murray

6. Bennett 

That’s all I got.

 

Not saying it is happening but Jay Wright could be a left field name for the list

[Hoosier987]

2 minutes ago, Stuhoo said:

If we’re announcing before tourney games then to me it’s gotta be (in order of likelihood):

1. Devries (by far)

 

2. Stevens 

3. Donovan 

 

4. Collins 

5. Murray

6. Bennett 

That’s all I got.

 

Seems like it’s trending this way 

[Papacap]

2 minutes ago, Stuhoo said:

If we’re announcing before tourney games then to me it’s gotta be (in order of likelihood):

1. Devries (by far)

 

2. Stevens 

3. Donovan 

 

4. Collins 

5. Murray

6. Bennett 

That’s all I got.

 

Jay “catfish” wright has to be on that list.

[Hoosier987]

Just now, Papacap said:

Jay “catfish” wright has to be on that list.

It won’t be Jay Wright